DIANNE DALEY MCCLURE

DIANNE DALEY MCCLURE was appointed Chairman of the JAMCOPY Board in November 2015. She is founding partner of FOGA DALEY (2000) and heads the law firm’s Intellectual Property (IP) Department. Her professional memberships include the International Association of the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and the Global Advertising Lawyers Alliance (GALA). She has authored several publications including a monograph on Jamaica’s Intellectual Property Laws published in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws, Kluwer Law International (2008) and the Jamaica Chapter on Copyright in Copyright throughout the World, West (2009). She was also a founding Director, and Legal Advisor of JAMCOPY.

SHIRLEY CARBY

Founding member of JAMCOPY, SHIRLEY CARBY, Vice-Chairman, is the Chairman of Carlong Publishers (Caribbean) Limited whose principal activities are the publication and distribution of textbooks and creative literature for Caribbean primary and secondary schools. A former Teacher of English to high school students, she was also the Founding Chairman of JAMCOPY, and the Book Industry Association of Jamaica. In 2007, Shirley Carby was conferred with the National Honour of Officer of the Order of Distinction (OD) for her contribution to Publishing and Literacy Development.

NOEL FRANCIS

Founding member of JAMCOPY, NOEL FRANCIS, OD, Honorary Treasurer, is a hydrographer. He has overseen the survey and dredging of the Kingston and Montego Bay Harbours (Jamaica) and Gross Islet Harbour in St. Lucia among other locations. A member of the ARICS (Associate of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors), he has served as a consultant to the Jamaican Government in its boundary negotiations with Cayman and Honduras. Noel Francis has been conferred with an Order of Distinction (OD) for his service to the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management.

CHERRY-ANN SMART

Founding member of JAMCOPY, CHERRY-ANN SMART, Honorary Secretary, is an academic librarian specializing in areas surrounding scholarly writing, research and publishing. She has authored several articles, book chapters and reviews and was an awardee of the 2016/17 International Fellow of the Society of Scholarly Publishing. Cherry-ann Smart serves as Research and Publication Chair of the Library and Information Association of Jamaica (LIAJA) and is also member of several international and local organisations including the Society of Scholarly Publishing (SSP) and the American Library Association (ALA).

MAJOR JOSEPH WILLIAMS

Founding member of JAMCOPY, MAJOR JOSEPH (Joe) B. WILLIAMS, OD, ARCM is a musician, arranger, composer, author, publisher and teacher of music in several genres, conductor and former Director of Music of the Jamaica Military Band/Jamaica Defence Force. Among other honors Major Williams is the recipient of the Order of Distinction, Officer Class (O.D.) for Services in the Development of Music in the Jamaica Defence Force (1990). He is also a member of JACAP (Jamaica Association of Composers, Author and Publishers, of musical works) and a lifelong member of the Jamaica Music Federation.

EDWARD CHANNER

EDWARD CHANNER is an artist, painter and ceramist. He graduated from the Jamaica School of Art in 1978 and has hosted solo exhibitions at the Pegasus Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica and participated in numerous group shows locally and overseas. Edward is the current “Sitting President of the Guild of Artists”, the single largest non- governmental group of artisans in Jamaica. He is a tireless advocate for greater respect and recognition for Jamaican artists.

HELENE COLEY-NICHOLSON

HELENE COLEY-NICHOLSON is an Attorney-at-law and media practitioner. She previously worked as a broadcast journalist - Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (now defunct) and Head of the News Department - KLAS FM Radio. The recipient of the prestigious Reuters Journalism Fellowship to Oxford University (1990), her syndicated environmental news reports have been broadcast across the Caribbean, Europe and continental Africa. Helene Coley Nicholson is a Director and Legal Advisor of the Press Association of Jamaica and a part-time University Lecturer in Human Rights.

JOY FAIRCLOUGH-MORGAN

JOY FAIRCLOUGH-MORGAN is a Musician, Singer-Songwriter, Instrumental Composer, Recording Artiste, Music Educator and Performance Health Science Trainer in the Creative Arts. She has published several publications on the use of music and writing trends in music, vocal training and performance health science studies of the human body, a 'Vocal Warm Ups For Great Voices' training video and children songs music videos. Joy Fairclough Morgan is a recipient of the Queens of Reggae Island Honorary Award at the Award Ceremonies (QORHIC), 2017.

ANNIE PAUL

ANNIE PAUL is a writer and critic based at the University of the West Indies, Mona, where she heads the Publications Section at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies. Annie Paul is a founding editor of the journal Small Axe and the original Caribbean Review of Books, author of a weekly column in the Jamaica Gleaner and Editor of the book Caribbean Culture: Soundings on Kamau Brathwaite and has been published in international journals and magazines such as Newsweek International, The Caravan (India), and Art Journal.

PATRICIA REID-WAUGH

PATRICIA REID-WAUGH, JP, is a Member (Retired) of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Jamaica. A former mathematics teacher, she also enjoyed an extensive accountancy career with the Deloitte firms in Jamaica and St. Maarten. Patricia Reid-Waugh also served as a Commissioner of the St. Kitts and Nevis Financial Services Commission. A musician and poet, she is also the author of Retirement, A New Adventure (2016).

TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE

TANYA BATSON-SAVAGE, is Publisher and Editor in Chief of independent award-winning publishing house 'Blue Banyan Books' and its imprint 'Blouse and Skirt Books'. She has worked in cultural policy, teaching, journalism, advertising, and creative writing and has been published in Skywritings magazine, Jamaica Journal, and Caribbean Beat among others. She curates the Caribbean arts and culture online magazine susumba.com and the digital literary mag Susumba’s Book Bag. Her animation film script ‘Endeavour’ was awarded Best Screenplay in the Kingstoon Animation Festival (2013).

JUNETTE GRANDISON

JUNETTE GRANDISON, is the president of the National Association of Teachers of English (NATE). She is also an examiner with the Caribbean Examinations Council, a member of the Subject Advisory Group for English at E-Learning Jamaica Ltd, and part of a four-member team that that assisted the Jamaica Teaching Council in drafting standards for the licensing of Language Arts teachers. Mrs Grandison recently retired after teaching at English at the St. Jago High School for thirty-four years.